Become A Better KitchenTips

Cook better and faster with these tips!

Because lots of people liked the first part of these blog, I'm going to teach you some of the news tricks I've learned lately. These are some tricks and advice that'll help you a lot in the kitchen.

by Kevin Zhou

1. Lemon juice please.

You are going to cook a delicious lemon cheesecake but you don't have any lemon juice left? Or do you want to sell some juice in your frontdoor to earn some money? Squeeze everything out of that lemon by using some tongs! And if you microwave the lemons for 30 seconds you'll have even more juice.

2. Cooking eggs takes so much time!

You want to have something with eggs but it takes so much time for a so basic dish that you don't feel like cooking it? I understand you. That plus having to wash the pan, dishes etc. can be a very tiring process so why not cook them in a mug instead? 

Place two stirred eggs with salt and pepper inside an oiled mug and pace it inside a microwave for 45 secs. Turn it around and another 45 secs. There you have some nice scrambled eggs. Mix the eggs with what you want and heat it for 80 secs instead, you'll get a delicious omelette.

3. The power of dental floss.

You would never think of doing these but if you are bad cutting cakes with the knife try this. Using dental floss to cut cakes, pastries and pretty much whatever you want is something that helped me once last week ans it's realy effective. You just have to place the floss the shape you want to cut and press firmly.

4. Tin foil is more than just wrapping.

I'm pretty sure that you know that tin foils is really helpful when you need to wrap your sandwich, but did you know it's really useful when cooking in a camping or over fire? If you need to cook some meat or corn or something you don't want totally burnt, wrap some tin foil around it and place it over the fire. It'll be perfectly cooked and it won't taste like coal!

5. Shaped pancakes.

Surprise your kids with these lovely shaped pancakes for breakfast! You don't need to use a ketchup bottle as you might have read somewhere (that doesn't really work) but just some cookie cutters! Get some iron cookie cutters with a pattern that your children wll like and place them over a heat pan. After that you just have to pour inside your pancake mix and there you have it! Some lovely shaped pancakes that kids will love!

6. Chewy cookies?

Never get your cookies chewy again! 

Cookies are the best recently bakes with their moist texture so to keep that moisture for your leftover cookies, place them inside a tupperware with an apple wedge. Cookies will keep the moisture from the apple! And if you keep them for a log time just replace the apple wedge!

7. This lid!

How many times in your life have you struggled opening a (way too sealed) lid? Never waste your time in such things again by placing the jar downwards inside a container with some hot water for 15 seconds. The pressure inside the jar will decrease and it will be a lot easier to open.

That's it. These tricks helped me a lot lately and keep helping me. If you want to know the new tricks that I learn in the future let me know in the comments.